Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front
17 July 1919

Lentsман and Peterson from Rezekne are asking me to halt the renaming of the former Latvian regiments. I am directing their request to you.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT OF LATVIA
Rezekne
17 July 1919

I request that you contact Stalin—member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front—regarding the question of renaming.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front*
17 July 1919

The Danish Red Cross mission, which received permission to depart for Denmark from the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, Dzerzhinsky, and the Special Department of the Cheka, has been directed to Minsk by agreement with the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. The representative of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs accompanying the mission reports that you have detained the mission and forbidden its further passage. I request that you urgently report what new considerations, not foreseen by the military authorities and the Cheka, have prompted your order to detain the mission.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

* Printed from typewritten copy. The words in the address: "Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front"—were written by V. I. Lenin.

# TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front
18 July 1919

Your request will be discussed by the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. Sklyansky says that if we are to take more from the Eastern Front, then it should go to the Southern Front. Tomorrow the head of the Political Administration and the Commander-in-Chief will arrive from the Southern Front.

Lenin

# RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
18 JULY 1919

For the purpose of preserving in the fullest possible secrecy from outside persons matters concerning the combat supply of our army and the activities of factories, institutions, and establishments connected therewith in the production of such supplies—

The Council of Defense hereby resolves:

Inspections of any kind of institutions, establishments, and factories producing combat supplies for the Red Army, whatever the purpose and by whatever order such inspection might be conducted, shall be permitted exclusively upon special permits issued with the signature of the Chairman of the Council of Defense, or the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, or his deputy, or the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary for Supply. All such manner of mandates must be registered without exception with the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Council of Defense.

An exception is permitted only for local labor inspectors, whose mandates must be certified by the local provincial executive committee.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.